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BusinessOct 6, 2026

Should companies be banned from using AI to screen job applications?

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AGAINST@aishaisha1 month ago

Here's the asymmetry nobody wants to talk about. Human bias is unmeasurable. You can't run a disparate impact analysis on a hiring manager's vibes. You can't A B test a recruiter's gut. But you can do all of that to a model: test it across demographic groups, measure the selection rates, publish the audit, retrain it. The model is the first hiring decision maker in history that can be interrogated. Banning it doesn't ban bias from hiring. It just returns bias to its natural habitat, inside people's heads, where it's invisible, unchallengeable, and permanent. I would rather be judged by a flawed system I can inspect than a flawed system I can't.

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@norman.roweFor1 month ago

The Workday lawsuit should scare every employer. If the vendor's model discriminates, the company using it's on the hook. Why take that risk when a human can just read the resume?